15th March
FOREIGN POLICY CAN NEVER BE ETHICAL

Chair: Dr Kate Young, former director of Womankind Worldwide.
Panel: Martin Bell, OBE, writer and broadcaster; Rt Hon Clare Short, PC, MP, former Secretary of State for International Development;

Can we expect our government ever to pursue any ethical dimension into foreign policy? Was Clemenceau correct when he said that nations have no permanent alliances, only permanent interests?

22nd March
HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH IS A BIGGER THREAT THAN CLIMATE CHANGE

Chair: Dr Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development.
Panel: Mr David Nicholson-Lord, Optimum Population Trust; Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey; Mr Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth.

A few years ago slowing down the growth of population was seen as the key issue of world poverty. Is this one of the hidden issues that cannot be mentioned?

29th March
DOES EUROPE REALLY CARE ABOUT THE SOUTH?

Chair: Baroness Uddin, House of Lords
Panel: Mr Austin Mitchell, MP, Chair of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign; Mr Tony Colman, former MP for Putney; Mr David Stephen, director of the European Movement.

Will the accession of the new countries, none of them with any obligations towards former colonies, signal the end of the interest of the European Union in the development of the South?

Notes

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